Mr. Attila Adamfi, IWF Director General and Ms. Eva Moska, IWF Development and Education Director paid a visit to Kazan, Russia in order to follow up the preparation process regarding the Junior World Championships to be held in June 2014. The IWF delegation had fruitful meetings with Mr. Sergey Syrtsov, President of the Russian Weightlifting […]
The African Junior and Youth (YOG Qualification) Championships are about to kick off in Tunis, Tunisia. Prior to the competition, Mr. Mohamed Nadir Feki, President of the Tunisian Weightlifting Federation organized a meeting between Dr. Tamas Ajan, IWF President; Mr. Khaled Mhalhel, President of the Weightlifting Federation of Africa; Mr. Saber Bouatay, Tunisian Sports Minister […]
The 2014 IOC World Conference on Prevention of Injury and Illness in Sport came to a close on 12 April, in Monaco. The meetings, described by many delegates as the most constructive yet for researchers and practitioners in the field of sports medicine and prevention, were attended by a record 980 participants from 81 countries, […]
Owned by SportAccord, the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) and the Association of Winter Olympic International Federations (AIOWF), SportAccord Convention brings together representatives from more than 100 International Sports Federations and organisations affiliated with SportAccord, ASOIF, AIOWF, Association of Recognised IOC Sports Federations (ARISF) and Alliance of Independent Members of SportAccord (AIMS). This […]
Nine men and two women members of the Malta Weightlifting Association finished successfully a Weightlifting coaching courses organised by the Malta Olympic Committee Coaching Academy with the help of the Olympic Solidarity in collaboration with the Semmelweis University of Hungary. Five of the students successfully obtained the Instructor Level 1 together with other six members […]